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SYNGE SUMMER SCHOOL 2011 FULL PROGRAMME
‘Irish Drama in
Times of Crisis”
(The programme may be subject to minor
changes; these will be advised to participants during the school)
You can read short summaries of the papers by clicking on this link – and there
are descriptions of the seminars here.
Correct as of 28 June
2011
Thursday
30 June
12.00 – 14.00: Registration, The Conference Hall, Avondale
14.00 – 15.15 Patrick Lonergan,
“Irish Drama in Times of Crisis”
15.45– 17.00: Chris Morash, ’There Does Be A Power of
Young Men Floating Round in the Sea:’ Space, Place
and Placelessness After Synge.
19.00: Informal Evening for participants and
speakers. Venue: Jacobs Well, Rathdrum
Friday 1
July
9.30 – 11.00 – Seminars: Synge and Contemporary Irish Drama
(1) (Patrick Lonergan)/
Contemporary Irish Women Dramatists (1) (Riana O’Dwyer)
11.30-13.00 – Seminars: Joseph
O’Connor’s Ghost Light (1)
(Patrick Lonergan)/ Queer Theatre
and Performance (1) (Fintan Walsh)
11.30 – Tour of Avondale House /Tour of Avondale Park (optional)
14.00 – 15.15: Cathy Leeney, “All Over Again: New
Beginnings in Irish Theatre?”
15.45 – 17.15: New Approaches to Synge
Christopher Collins "'The Lord Protect us from the saints of God!' : Saints, Sinners and Synge."
Aisling Mullan, 'Synge's Mediation of Scripture and Primitive Custom in The
Shadow of the Glen.'
Emer O’Toole, 'Intercultural Playboys: Contemporary Conflicts.'
20.00: Una McKevitt’s
565+ and Victor and Gord Mermaid Arts
Centre Bray followed by post-show discussion. Approximate finish time 22.30.
Saturday
2 July
9.30 – 11.00 – Seminars: Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light (2) (Patrick Lonergan) / Queer Theatre and Performance
(2) (Fintan Walsh)
11.30-13.00 – Seminars: Synge and Contemporary Irish Drama (2) (Patrick Lonergan) / Contemporary Irish Women
Dramatists (2) (Riana O’Dwyer)
11.30 – Tour of Avondale House / Tour of Avondale Park (optional)
14.00 – 15.15: James Moran, ‘Synge and Ezra Pound’
15.45 – 17.00: Fintan Walsh, 'Saving Ulster
from Sodomy and Hysteria: Sexual and Political Performance in Northern Ireland.'
17.15 - Departure for Laragh. (The
group will be brought to the Wicklow Heather
Restaurant, where they
may purchase a meal if they wish).
20.00: “Darkening the Past; Lighting up the Future: Irish Theatre
in the 1980s'”. A lecture by Colm Toíbín, Brocagh
Resource Centre, Laragh. Approx finish time 22.00.
Sunday 3
July
9.45– 11.00: Riana O’Dwyer, 'That's how I spell IRELAND': Tom
Murphy's drama from 1959 to 2009’.
11.30– 12.30: Aideen Howard, ‘New Writing and New Writers
at the Abbey Theatre’
12:30: Close of School and launch of Synge and His Influences: Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer
School
13.00: Lunch for school participants and guests in Avondale House
restaurant
14:30-17.30: Tour of Synge Country
(optional). Bus tour of local sites connected with J.M. Synge and his writings, ending at the Glenmalure Lodge for refreshments. The bus will return to
Avondale House.
If you have queries about the programme, please feel free to
contact Patrick
Lonergan, the Director of the School at patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie
BIOGRAPHICAL
NOTES
Christopher Collins is a Ph.D candidate at
The School of Drama, Film and Music at The University of Dublin, Trinity College, where he is also a teaching
assistant. His Doctoral thesis, entitled “‘The Playfellow of
Judas’: The pre-Christian Drama of J.M. Synge,” seeks to explore
how the vestiges and traces of pre-Christian Ireland are manifested in
Synge’s dramaturgical praxis.
Aideen Howard is the
Literary Director of the Abbey Theatre
with responsibility for commissioning new plays and developing new writers
for both stages of the Abbey Theatre. She is leading The Yeats Project, a
theatre research initiative on the plays of William Butler Yeats. Aideen
holds an MA in Drama from UCD and a BA in English
and German from Trinity
College. She was the
first Artistic Director of Mermaid Arts Centre where she programmed and ran a
multi-disciplinary arts venue. She has previously worked as literary
consultant to Arts Council projects and as dramaturg
at the Abbey Theatre.
Cathy Leeney lectures in Drama Studies at UCD School
of English, Drama and Film. Her
interest in theatre began through acting and directing. She has published on
Irish women playwrights (Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939: Gender and
Violence on Stage (Lang, 2010)), and on contemporary Irish theatre and
performance. She co-edited (with Anna McMullan) The Theatre of Marina Carr
and edited the first volume of contemporary plays by Irish women, Seen and
Heard (Carysfort Press, 2001). She set up the first
Irish Master's programme in Directing for Theatre at UCD
in 2004.
Patrick Lonergan is the Director of the Synge Summer School, and a
lecturer at National University of Ireland, Galway.
His first book, Theatre and
Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era won the 2008 Theatre Book
Prize and a 2010 Book Prize from the European Society for the Study of
English. He has also published The
Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays, Interactions – the Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007 (with
Nicholas Grene), and he writes about Irish theatre regularly for The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine. His book Synge and His Influences will be
launched at this year’s School, and he is currently writing a book
about Martin McDonagh, which will be published by Methuen in 2012.
James Moran is Head of Drama at the University
of Nottingham, and
presenter of the books feature on BBC Radio Nottingham. He has written
the monographs Irish Birmingham: A History (Liverpool University
Press, 2010) and Staging the Easter Rising (Cork University Press, 2005),
and is editor of the collection Four Irish Rebel Plays (Irish Academic
Press, 2007). His current research projects include work on the plays
of Seán O’Casey, the ‘regional’
dimension of literary modernism, and the history of theatrical riots in the long
nineteenth century.
Chris Morash is Head of the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies in
NUI Maynooth. He
is author of A History of Irish Theatre 1600-2000, and A History of
the Media in Ireland; he is currently Chair of the Compliance Committee
of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Aisling Mullan recently completed a doctoral study on “Religious
Transformations in the Drama of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge,
1899-1909.” She now teaches on the Revival and twentieth century Irish
fiction at Queen’s University. Her forthcoming article,
“‘The total rhythm of the white spaces’: Cathleen ni Houlihan and the
aesthetics of national rebirth,” will appear in the Yeats Annual: The Mask special
issue.
Riana O'Dwyer is Senior Lecturer in English, School of Humanities,
National University of Ireland, Galway.
She was Chair of the International Association for the Study of Irish
Literatures [IASIL] from 2003—2009. She has
lectured and published on Joyce, modern Irish drama, Irish studies, and Irish
women novelists of the nineteenth century. Recently her article, 'Murphy and
Synge: Insiders and Outsiders', was published in 'Alive in Time': The Enduring Drama of Tom Murphy, edited by
Christopher Murray (Dublin:
Carysfort Press, 2010). She has co-edited a number
of volumes, including a section in the Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing Vol. 5 and Echoes Down the Corridor: Irish Theatre - Past, Present and Future
in the series IASIL Studies in Irish Writing.
Emer O’Toole is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research, supported by the
Thomas Holloway Scholarship, examines rights of representation in
intercultural theatre practice. She is currently New Scholars' Representative
of the International Federation of Theatre Research. She is also editor of
Platform, Royal Holloway's postgraduate journal of theatre and the performing
arts. She teaches critical theories and contemporary theatremaking,
and lectures on Pierre Bourdieu, the Frankfurt school, phenomenology and postcolonialism.
Colm Tóibín is the author
of six novels, including The Master
and Brooklyn.
His other books include the collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The
Empty Family, as well as several works of non-fiction including Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border,
Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde
to Almodovar , and All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James. His plays include Beauty in a Broken Place which was
staged in 2004 as part of the Abbey Theatre’s Centenary Celebrations.
He is currently Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University, and is a contributing
editor at the London Review of Books.
Fintan Walsh is IRCHSS Research Fellow in Drama Studies at the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College
Dublin. He is co-editor of Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish
Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), author of Male Trouble:
Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and
editor of Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland (Cork
University Press, 2010). He has published widely on Irish theatre and
cultural performance, and queer theatre and performance practices. He is
currently writing a book on theatre and therapy, and co-editing an anthology
on theatre and performance after identity politics. He is a founding
member and co-convenor of IFTR’s
Queer Futures working group.
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